The journalistic accounting of public events is so very tedious and predictable. Really I do not believe that many of us who have been around more than a few years were surprised by the events surrounding the celebration of Independence Day.
What to say of many in high places who hate this country over their own manufactured lies? Who trash its most significant symbols, even to the flag and the Statue of Liberty? Who go beyond calling into question its founding documents, branding these as outright ‘racist’? So typical day to day…
Another couple of COVID ‘variants’, portending a resumption of tyrannical controls? More of the same…
Over four hundred shot and many killed during our celebration? Ho, hum, it’s what we have come to expect from cities run by lunatic and incompetent Marxist/Socialist wannabees who knows only how to blame neighboring states, racism, police, UFOs, just name it…
The border, the border, the border? Enough said…
And the religious establishment, so very silent in its complicity…
Some more conservative types are absolutely salivating, lusting over the one party out of power taking back that power late next year. Others live in fear that their party may fail. And the elders among us who have observed the fickle nature of the American voter manifested in the flipping of parties every few years, back and forth, back and forth… Doesn’t it seem that it is always about the taking back, some sort of team sport with one side playing catch-up, then the other gets the ball?
The sensible demand that the antagonists get out, go elsewhere if they cannot exhibit a scrap of respect for what we have accomplished together for nearly two hundred fifty years by this first-ever experiment in rule by the people. But the antagonists will not ‘get out’ on demand. It is not necessarily regarding their ideology that they remain in a nation that they find despicable. Rather, they are making too much money off their own freedom as they utilize the freedoms given them to denigrate the liberties of others.
Are there bright spots in this dismal swamp of a civil environment?
We witness and applaud parents gathering and learning to fight back over the government’s intent to do harm to the education and the futures of their children, this country’s children.
Citizens of this Republic are standing for individual liberty as the promise for humanity, rightfully disgusted and fed up with the prominent trashing what we stand for…
The public shows increasing awareness of the government’s misdirected efforts (or scant efforts at all) to deal with the criminal elements ruling the streets…
Such are the bright spots, Americans doing what Americans do best, standing against the evil and for the good. May the God grant to each and to all of us the courage to do just that, for the times demand it.
Father David+